Word: joking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Burning Bright" must be an allegory, because it is too long to be a joke. In four scenes Steinbeck has attempted to illustrate a theme adequately handled many times before: that true love is more important than anything else. Evidently he was afraid that his audience would be unable to grasp the subtle complexities of this idea, because it is repeated numerous times during the evening. The last scene serves as a summary to make sure the more uncomprehending members of the audience catch...
Pictures like White on White have more historic than intrinsic interest (painted 30 years ago, Malevich's solemn joke helped clear the way for later abstractionists). A few highbrow enthusiasts maintain that other paintings like the Miro and the Mondrian are really great art, and that the public will some day realize it. Be that as it may, the museum keeps buying whatever suits its own rarefied fancy, and exhibiting its finds with an air of "Close your mouth and open your eyes and I will give you a big surprise!" Last week it had on exhibition two recent...
...slab, gently curved and polished to paperknife thinness, did seem to move somehow, and the uneven grain of the marble gave it a wavering, watery air. It was no small feat to make stone come alive. The Fish might be ivory-towerish, but no one could call it a joke...
...strategy worked in 1941 and 1943. Despite Harry Truman's fuming that railroad strikers ought to be conscripted into the Army, it worked again in 1946, again in 1948. The new policy made a joke out of what for years had been recognized as the model machinery for settling labor disputes: the Railway Labor...
Poor Lamb. A stammer when he spoke Improved his gentle little joke, Which had a point-but one that went Best with an impediment...